On Friday 27 August 2004 11:29 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20040828025829.GA51618_at_prophecy.dyndns.org> > > Christopher Nehren <apeiron_at_comcast.net> writes: > : On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 22:41:32 EDT, M. Warner Losh scribbled these > : > : curious markings: > : > I guess it all depends on what you mean by recently. I'd thought that > : > some of my recent changes had broken it, but the breakage goes back > : > further than that. 5.2 release isn't 'recent', and I fully believe > : > that things may have changed since then... I see a major uhid upgrade > : > in that time frame, which may be the time of breakage... > : > : I understand your point, but that doesn't sit well with the fact that my > : joypad broke *after* I updated from 5.2-CURRENT of ~ August 15 to > : 6.0-CURRENT of ~ August 19. Logically, if it had been busted by the uhid > : upgrade in March, then it could not possibly have worked with 5.2-CURRENT > : (which it did, just as well as it did with 5.2.1-RELEASE[1]), correct? > : > : [1] Better, in fact, as the device wasn't detected at boot time in 5.2.1 > : but was in 5.2-CURRENT. > > Then I'm very confused... Time to dig deeper... Alfred turned the atkbd probing off a while back: alfred 2004/04/01 13:48:31 PST FreeBSD src repository Modified files: sys/i386/conf GENERIC.hints Log: Fix booting with ps2 keyboards. Revision Changes Path 1.13 +0 -1 src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints This didn't actually affect booting with a PS/2 keyboard, but only meant that you could boot up without a PS/2 keyboard and then plug it in, at the cost of breaking all uses of USB keyboards unless you use explicit kbdcontrol commands. The instant-MFC was backed out of RELENG_4 at the request of re_at_ due to POLA. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Tue Aug 31 2004 - 18:55:36 UTC
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